Claim: Former Minister of Finance, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, at a press briefing at Parliament, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, claimed that the previous Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government never introduced taxes on bet winnings, popularly called the Betting Tax.
Dr Amin Adam made this claim while reacting to an announcement by his successor, the current Minister of Finance, Dr , on the cancellation of the Betting Tax and other tax measures introduced by the Akufo-Addo government, including the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy).
The former finance minister laughed at the suggestion that the Betting Tax was going to be cancelled because it was not implemented in the first place. "Ladies and gentlemen, we never collected the Betting Tax that they said they had abolished.
We never implemented the Betting Tax, so to come and tell Ghanaians that you have abolished something that was never implemented is to deceive the people of Ghana," Dr Amin Adam said.
